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Tyne + Weird II by Rob Kilburn
RRP: £12.99£9.62'Stories like this tend to have a life of their own...'From privateers to monkey murderers, kleptomaniacs to automatons and giant bugs to fart lamps - it's time to gather round the fire once again for more tales of North East madness. In this second... -
Early Christian Ireland by T. M. Charles-Edwards
RRP: £37.99£35.43This book provides a fully documented history of Ireland and the Irish between the fourth and ninth centuries AD, from St Patrick to the Vikings - the earliest period for which historical records are available. It opens with the Irish raids and... -
The Prince, the Princess and the Perfect Murder: An Untold History by Andrew Rose
RRP: £9.99£6.80The royal family's darkest secret and the establishment cover-up. Half a century before Dodi and Diana, another Prince of Wales would be involved in a deadly love triangle with a fabulously wealthy Egyptian "prince." Prince Edward was the future King of... -
The Little History of Yorkshire by Ingrid Barton 9780750983563
RRP: £12.00£8.93There is nothing 'little' about the history of England's largest county, Yorkshire! However, this small volume condenses a rich history into a collection of stories and facts that will make you marvel at the events this county has witnessed, from... -
When There Were Birds by Roy Adkins
RRP: £25.00£5.31A landmark book that charts humanity's changing relationship with birds - from the ancient Egyptians to the twenty-first century 'A marvellously original slice of social history' Daily Mail'The facts and folklore of birdlife are dissected in admirable... -
Denbighshire Folk Tales by Fiona Collins 9780752451879
RRP: £9.99£7.55Wales is especially rich in the folklore of place, and this collection brings a new perspective to the history of Denbighshire, the oldest inhabited area of Wales. With hills, valleys, moorland and coast, this varied land has inspired many tales of... -
The Boer War: A History by Denis Judd
£20.97The Boer War of 1899-1902 was an epic of heroism and bungling, cunning and barbarism, with an extraordinary cast of characters - including Churchill, Rhodes, Conan Doyle, Smuts, Kipling, Gandhi, Kruger and Kitchener. The war revealed the ineptitude of... -
Sandringham Days: The Domestic Life of the Royal Family in Norfolk, 1862-1952 by John Matson 9780752465821
RRP: £14.99£11.55This is a fascinating portrait of royal life at Sandringham, from the early life of Albert Edward to the modern day. Drawing on letters, diaries and contemporary reports, it is a rich exploration of the private lives of Britain's royal family. From... -
Greater Manchester Murders by Alan Hayhurst
RRP: £14.99£11.55Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in the history of Greater Manchester. They include the case of cat burglar Charlie Peace, who killed 20-year-old PC Nicolas Cock in Seymour Grove, and only... -
House of Spies: St Ermin's Hotel, the London Base of British Espionage by Peter Matthews
RRP: £9.99£7.55St Ermin's Hotel has been at the centre of British intelligence since the 1930s, when it was known to MI6 as 'The Works Canteen'. Intelligence officers such as Ian Fleming and Noel Coward were to be found in the hotel's Caxton Bar, along with other less... -
Building Britannia: A History of Britain in Twenty-Five Buildings by Steven Parissien 9781801108751
RRP: £35.00£22.20An ambitious history of Britain told through the stories of twenty-five notable structures, from the Iron Age fortification of Maiden Castle in Dorset to the Gherkin. Building Britannia is a chronicle of social, political and economic change seen... -
The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture by Clare Bucknell
RRP: £27.99£24.67The fascinating history of poetry anthologies and their influence on British society and culture over the last four centuries. For hundreds of years, anthologies have shaped the way we encounter literature. Eighteenth-century children and young women... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants by Charles Moore 9780241573587
RRP: £40.00£29.99The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron LadyIn June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's Parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as... -
The Surnames of Scotland: Their Origin, Meaning and History by George F. Black
RRP: £40.00£28.90First published by the New York Public Library in 1946, Black's The Surnames of Scotland has long established itself as one of the great classics of genealogy. Arranged alphabetically, each entry contains a concise history of the family in question (with... -
The Little History of Essex by Judith Williams 9780750970419
RRP: £12.00£8.93There is nothing 'little' about the history of Essex! However, this small volume condenses that fascinating, rich history into a collection of stories and facts that will make you marvel at the events our county has witnessed. Discover the development of... -
Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide by Hilary McD. Beckles 9789766402686
£42.74Since the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been growing. In the Caribbean, grassroots and official voices now constitute a regional reparations movement... -
The Great Irish Potato Famine by James S. Donnelly
RRP: £30.00£22.43In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a... -
Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England by Roger Scruton
RRP: £10.99£7.32For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of theroad, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage, and which regards the... -
Battles of the Jacobite Rebellions: Killiecrankie to Culloden by Jonathan Oates 9781526735515
RRP: £25.00£18.02Many books have been written about the Jacobite rebellions - the armed attempts made by the Stuarts to regain the British throne between 1689 and 1746 - and in particular about the risings of 1689, 1715, 1719 and 1745. The key battles have been described... -
WJEC GCSE History The Elizabethan Age 1558-1603 and Depression, War and Recovery 1930-1951 by R. Paul Evans
£25.61Exam Board: WJECLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2019Endorsed by WJECHelp every student to develop the in-depth knowledge and historical skills they need to achieve their best with the market-leading series for... -
Henry VIII by Lucy Wooding
RRP: £38.99£34.22This new edition of Lucy Wooding's Henry VIII is fully revised and updated to provide an insightful and original portrait of one of England's most unforgettable monarchs and the many paradoxes of his character and reign. Henry was a Renaissance prince... -
The Baby Boomer Generation: A Lifetime of Memories by Paul Feeney
RRP: £10.99£8.25Do you remember washing in a tin bath by the fire, using outside lavatories and not having a television? Did you grow up in the 1950s and were you a teenager in the swinging sixties? If the Festival of Britain, food rationing and the Queen's coronation... -
Sweet and Clean?: Bodies and Clothes in Early Modern England by Susan North 9780198856139
£116.41Sweet and Clean? challenges the widely held beliefs on bathing and cleanliness in the past. For over thirty years, the work of the French historian, George Vigarello, has been hugely influential on early modern European social history, describing an... -
Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act by E. P. Thompson 9780957000520
RRP: £16.00£14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957000520Author E. P. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Breviary Stuff PublicationsPublisher Breviary Stuff PublicationsWeight(grams) 432g -
A Richness of Martens: Wildlife Tales from Ardnamurchan by Polly Pullar
RRP: £8.99£6.08Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2019 When Les and Chris Humphreys moved to Ardnamurchan 15 years ago, little did they realise they would be sharing their home with some of Britain's most elusive and misunderstood mustelids. Amongst all the... -
Gresley and his Locomotives: L & N E R Design History by Tim Hillier-Graves 9781526729934
RRP: £40.00£29.39The story of Gresley and his locomotives is a well-trodden path. But our view of his achievements is a blinkered one because it fails to recognise all the other people who played a part in his work. As the leading American aviation engineer Paul S Baker... -
Detective: A Life Upholding the Law by Tom Connolly
RRP: £13.99£10.95Tom Connolly joined An Garda Siochana in 1955, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. His early days on the force were spent in various villages and towns around Ireland, tracking petty thieves, raiding pubs and patrolling country... -
Devon and Cornwall The Class 47 Years: Class 47 A West Country symposium by Bernard Mills 9781781556573
RRP: £18.99£14.32The year 2002 saw a radical change on the railways of Devon and Cornwall: it was the last year of daily locomotive hauled passenger trains (other than the overnight London sleeper). These remaining workings were in the capable hands of the ubiquitous... -
1941: Politics, Espionage and the Secret Pact between Churchill and Roosevelt by Marc Wortman
RRP: £10.99£7.32Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, America had long been involved in a shadow war. Throughout 1941, President Roosevelt concocted ingenious ways to come to Winston Churchill's aid, without breaking the Neutrality Acts. Conducting espionage at home and... -
Mapping the Second World War: The history of the war through maps from 1939 to 1945 by Peter Chasseaud
RRP: £30.00£20.76Follow the conflict of the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 in this unique volume, published in association with Imperial War Museums, London, featuring historical maps and photographs from their archives, and fascinating commentary from an expert... -
The Wicked Wit of the Royal Family by Karen Dolby
RRP: £9.99£6.85The Wicked Wit of the Royal Family celebrates the flashes of fun and brilliance of the most famous family in the world.There is no doubt that the British royal family is THE most famous family in the world. Watched and picked over in the media for... -
Maeshowe and the Heart of Neolithic Orkney by Rachel Pickering 9781849172479
RRP: £6.00£4.29The chambered tomb of Maeshowe sits in one of the richest and best preserved Neolithic landscapes in Europe. This was a place of stone circles, villages and burial monuments; a place where people lived, worshipped and honoured their dead. The surviving... -
Luck of the Devil: Flying Swordfish in Wwii by Robert le Page 9781848845442
RRP: £19.99£14.28Robert le Page flew with the Fleet Air Arm from 1940 to 1945, mostly in 816 Squadron flying carrier-based Fairey Swordfish. He saw action mine-laying off Cherbourg, hunting U-boats, escorting convoys in North Atlantic and in the Arctic seas and covering... -
The Enlightened Economy: Britain and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850 by Joel Mokyr
RRP: £22.00£16.02Why did Western countries become so much wealthier than the rest of the world? What explains the huge rise in incomes during the Industrial Revolution - and why did Britain lead the way?In the years between the Glorious Revolution and the Great... -
The Picture of Yarmouth: 200 Years of Built Heritage by Paul Davies 9780957609211
RRP: £10.00£8.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957609211Author Paul DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Great Yarmouth Local History & Archaeological SocietyPublisher Great Yarmouth Local... -
Political Corruption in Ireland 1922-2010: A Crooked Harp? by Elaine Byrne 9780719086885
RRP: £19.99£17.82This book empirically maps the decline in standards since the inauguration of Irish independence in 1922, to the loss of Irish economic sovereignty in 2010. It argues that the definition of corruption is an evolving one. As the nature of the state... -
Medieval Scotland by A. D. M. Barrell
RRP: £37.99£33.50This is a one-volume history of medieval Scotland, concentrating on the period between the middle of the eleventh century and the Reformation and taking full account of recent scholarship. It is primarily a political and ecclesiastical study, analysing... -
British Battleships 1939-45 (2): Nelson and King George V Classes: Vol. 2 by Angus Konstam 9781846033896
RRP: £11.99£8.43With the outbreak of World War II, Britain's Royal Navy and her fleet of battleships would be at the forefront of her defence. Yet ten of the twelve battleships were already over twenty years old, having served in World War I, and required extensive... -
Penal Servitude: Convicts and Long-Term Imprisonment, 1853-1948 by Helen Johnston
RRP: £31.00£21.78Established in 1853, after the end of penal transportation to Australia, the convict prison system and the sentence of penal servitude offered the most severe form of punishment - short of death - in the criminal justice system, and they remained in... -
The Blue Arena by Bob Spurdle 9780907579984
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579984Author Bob SpurdleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing